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This book is a revised and expanded edition of Colin Price's seminal original publication, providing a richly comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of landscape economics. Chapters address key issues like natural resources and environmental economics, while presenting a wide and integrative view...
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advances can enhance productivity and ensure sustainable growth in agriculture. Optimal control theory, dynamic optimization … problems and theory of risk and uncertainty are extensively used to create theoretical models for analyzing agricultural growth …
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1 Introduction: Why an African Green Revolution is Needed and Why It Must Include Small Farms (Larson and Otsuka) -- 2 On the Determinants of Low Productivity of Rice Farming in Mozambique: Pathways to Intensification (Kajisa) -- 3 On the Possibility of Rice Green Revolution in Irrigated and...
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management sciences. It presents basic (classical) theory of megaproject management and is a showcase of more than 30 years of … research of complex system and management sciences on the theory of megaproject management resulting from the integrating of … theory and practice of megaprojects. The theory and models have undergone rigorous systematic testing during the management …
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This is a book about the whole diverse range of firms that are found in the construction sector, about their decision-making and the economic environments in which they operate. The authors aim to provide a new and coherent perspective on these firms and the choices they have to make - both for...
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This collection deals with some interesting economic questions related to construction and real estate, namely how construction firms cope with the volatility of construction; whether speculative bubbles or market fundamentals drive those fluctuations; new techniques to predict construction...
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This book will be of interest to built environment professionals and to students of the economics and management of the built environment. It shows the value of integrating ideas and data about the production of the built environment as an industrial process with theories and data about the...
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Rural poverty remains widespread and persistent in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. A group of leading experts critically examines the impact of land tenure reforms on poverty reduction and natural resource management in countries in Africa and Asia with highly diverse historical contexts.
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In its second volume, this book aims to link the academic research with development in the real world and provide a historical and institutional background that can enrich more formal research. The first section will include an assessment of the evolution and the state of the nascent...
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Dieses Standardwerk analysiert in über 35 Einzelbeiträgen die Besonderheiten und Risikopotenziale bei der Bewertung von Spezialimmobilien und erläutert sie systematisch anhand der aktuellsten Entwicklungen. Das Buch gibt nicht nur Sachverständigen und Investoren eine unverzichtbare...
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